House Removals in London

We arrive, protect the furniture, then load in an order that unloads sensibly at the other end. Sofas and mattresses go under wrapping, wooden pieces get blankets, and the whole load is strapped so nothing slides on the drive. If your boxes are packed we load straight away; if the last few items defeated you, we finish them off.

Wherever the two addresses sit, we have already checked the route for red routes, the congestion zone and any street too narrow for a Luton, so the plan holds up once we are moving.

Plenty of London homes put the furniture several floors up with a turning staircase in the way. We are used to easing a wardrobe round a half-landing and taking a bed frame apart when the doorway wins, and we would rather lose two minutes on a sofa leg than mark your wall. Where a lift is involved, we time our trips so we are not holding it hostage from your neighbours.

Tell us the floor and whether the lift takes furniture when you ask for a price, and we send the right number of hands for it.

Half of a smooth move is where the van can legally sit. Some boroughs want a bay suspension for a removal, and a ticket is easy to earn without one, so we tell you what your street is likely to need and how near we can realistically pull up.

Where a suspension is not on, we work with what the kerb allows and keep the walk between door and van as short as we safely can.

The figure comes from three things: how much is moving, how easy the access is at each end, and how far apart the addresses sit. Nothing is metered while you watch, and nothing lands on the bill that was not in the quote.

Weekends and the last few days of the month fill first in London, so it is worth pinning a date early even if a few details are still loose.